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Unilever joins forces with Ioniqa to scale up breakthrough plastic waste recycling process
UNILEVER has formed a partnership with processing pioneer Ioniqa and Indorama, the world’s largest producer of PET resin, to scale up a technology that converts plastic waste back into virgin feedstock.
Type: News
Process Hengineering, You Say?
How a team of process engineers turned waste calcium hydroxide into valuable animal feed
Type: Feature
Solar reactor uses storage to produce fuel day and night
A SOLAR reactor has been developed that can store thermal energy to produce fuel around the clock. The reactor could potentially be used to produce hydrogen for fuel cells, without any carbon emissions.
Type: News
World’s first liquid air storage plant opens
THE world’s first full-scale liquid air energy storage (LAES) plant, which can store excess energy produced from renewable power, has been opened in the UK.
Type: News
EXXONMOBIL’s plan to become a leading lithium producer moved a step closer with the first phase of production at one of the largest lithium brine resources in North America.
Type: News
BASF and JenaBatteries cooperate to develop innovative power storage technology
BASF and German startup JenaBatteries are cooperating to produce battery technology suitable for stationary storage of energy from renewable energy sources and for stabilising conventional transmission grids.
Type: News
Tokamak Energy partners up to accelerate commercialisation of fusion energy
UK-BASED fusion energy company Tokamak Energy and Japanese-headquartered Sumitomo Corporation have agreed to collaborate on delivering fusion energy to Japan and worldwide, aiming to jointly design, build, and operate fusion power plants.
Type: News
Jupiter Ionics announced as a finalist for the Spinoff Prize 2023
JUPITER Ionics, a spinoff from Monash University, Australia that aims to produce ammonia in a zero-CO2 process has been made a 2023 finalist for the Spinoff Prize. The competition was established to showcase academic entrepreneurs and their spinoff companies in the early stages of development.
Type: News
Interactive Graph Resource for Chemical Engineering Design
Interactive graphs have the potential to provide students with a more dynamic and engaging learning experience. With that in mind, The University of Manchester’s Department of Chemical Engineering has produced an interactive set of graphs that can be easily embedded into any virtual learning environment
Type: Feature
JET’s swansong experiments break fusion record
THE final experiments at the UK’s JET fusion power plant have produced a world record for energy output.
Type: News
New theory could re-write Chernobyl history
RESEARCHERS in Sweden have published new analysis of the Chernobyl disaster which suggests that the first explosion was a nuclear explosion, and not a steam explosion as is generally thought.
Type: News
British Sugar’s James Caws and consultant Howard Boder explain how small-scale advanced process control can work outside of refining
Type: Feature
Life as an Early Career Engineer
The National Early Careers Committee (UK & Ireland and Malaysia) sheds some light on the challenges and opportunities that different career paths can bring
Type: Feature
Former US congressman Donald Rumsfeld gave this answer to a question relating to evidence linking the government of Iraq with the supply of weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups
Type: Feature
Australia's new Labor government has work to do, and chemical engineers can help, says Alexandra Meldrum
Type: Feature
Book Review: Power Up – An Engineer’s Adventures into Sustainable Energy
An easy-to-read meander through energy and its issues, Yasmin Ali touches on many of the key technologies and challenges in a personal and accessible way that makes you think - if you choose to.
Type: Feature
A catalyst for ‘greener’ hydrogen production
A RESEARCHER at the University of Delaware (UD), US has patented a process that could enable greener production of hydrogen. The process uses electricity and a copper-titanium (Cu-Ti) catalyst to make hydrogen from water.
Type: News
Making nail polish while producing hydrogen
Efficient process saves high-energy purification
Type: News
Partnership to accelerate plastic waste elimination
PACKAGING company Sealed Air has announced a partnership with advanced recycling technology company Plastic Energy that aims to accelerate the development of technology to eliminate plastic waste. Additionally, Sealed Air has invested US$2.5m in Plastic Energy’s parent company, Plastic Energy Global.
Type: News
